The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

occasion, read as part of Creative Arts Week, May 1961 at the University of Iowa. (Iowa
City: N.p., 1961). First edition. Narrow 4to, wrappers. Fine. Presentation copy, inscribed by
Engle: “To Marie Bullock, from all poets, for her devotion to poetry, Paul Engle, 1961.”
Engle and Mrs. Bullock were two of the most influential supporters of American poetry
during the twentieth century, he through the Iowa Writers Workshops and she through the
Academy. Among the poets contributing to this collection are: William Dickey, Donald
Finkel, W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Mezey, Mona Van Duyn, Donald Justice and Philip Levine,
as well as Engle himself. Engle has made a small holograph correction to his contribution. $125
276. ENGLE, PAUL. Golden Child. Illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher. New York: E.P.
Dutton, (1962). First edition thus. 8vo, ochre cloth. Fine in a lightly used dust jacket.
Inscribed by Engle to Mrs. Bullock. $40
277. ENGLE, PAUL & LANGLAND, JOSEPH (editors). Poet’s Choice. New York: The Dial
Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, brick red cloth. Fine in a lightly used dust jacket. Inscribed
by Engle: “To Marie, Poetry’s devoted friend, Paul Engle 1962.” A remarkable collection in
which the editors asked virtually all the leading poets of the day to choose from among their
own works. Their selections are printed with the poets’ commentaries on why they’d chosen
these verses. $75
278. ENGLE, PAUL. Embrace: Selected Love Poems. New York: Random House, (1969). First
edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Fine in a lightly used dust jacket. Signed and dated (1969)
on the half title page. $50
279. ENGLE, PAUL. Images of China: Poems Written in China, April-June 1980. Preface by
Nieh Hualing. Beijing: New World Press, (1981). First edition. 8vo, red cloth. Fine in dust
jacket. Signed and dated (1981) by Engle on the first leaf $35
280. ENGLISH POETS. The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. London: William
Pickering, 1830-1852. 53 volumes, 12mos, uniformly bound in full red pebble-grain morocco
by Hayday, a.e.g. Occasional tiny scuffs to spinal extremities, very small wrinkle to the
corner of five pages in a Shakespeare volume, else fine, fresh and bright. A very handsome
set of this significant edition. Includes: Chaucer, Milton, Burns, Cowper, Spenser, Gray,
Dryden, Pope, Swift, etc., etc. $4,500
COMPLETE SET
281. ENGLISH POETS. [Series title]: Ariel Poems. London: Faber & Gwyer/Faber & Faber, n.d.
(1927-1931). First editions. 38 volumes, uniform 12mos, original illustrated wrappers,
saddle-stitched. Bookplates in all but seven numbers; small tape-stains from where protective
plastic wrappers were once affixed, some soil and edge-stains to a few numbers, one spine
split, otherwise very good, a delicate set. The complete set of Ariel Poems, Faber’s
remarkable series that joined contemporary poets and illustrators. Each poem is a first
edition, with an original illustration and specially designed wrapper. The series includes:
Thomas Hardy & Albert Rutherston, Yuletide in a Younger World; Henry Newbolt & Ralph
Keene, The Linnet’s Nest; Laurence Binyon & Barnett Freedman, The Wonder Night; Walter
de la Mare & Blair Hughes-Stanton, Alone; G.K. Chesterton & Eric Gill, Gloria in
Profundis; Wilfrid Gibson & John Nash, The Early Whistler; Siegfried Sassoon & Paul Nash,
Nativity; T.S. Eliot & E. McKnight Kauffer, Journey of the Magi; Hilaire Belloc, The Chanty
of the Nona; W.H. Davies & William Nicholson, Moss and Feather; Walter de la Mare &
Blair Hughes-Stanton, Self to Self; Humbert Wolfe & Charles Ricketts, Troy; Harold Monro
& David Jones, The Winter Solstice; Siegfried Sassoon & Stephen Tennant, To My Mother;
Edith Sitwell & Edward Bawden, Popular Song; T.S. Eliot & E. McKnight Kauffer, A Song
for Simeon; Edmund Blunden & Albert Rutherston, Winter Nights; W.B. Yeats & Gilbert
Spencer, Three Things; A.E. & Paul Nash, Dark Weeping; Walter de la Mare & Claudia
Guercio, A Snowdrop; G.K. Chesterton & Diana Murphy, Ubi Ecclesia; James Stephens &
Althea Willoughby, The Outcast; T.S. Eliot & Gertrude Hermes, Animula; Peter Quennell &
Albert Rutherston, Inscription on a Fountain-Head; G.K. Chesterton & Celia Fiennes, The
Grave of Arthur; Harold Monro & Eric Ravilious, Elm Angel; Siegfried Sassoon & Stephen
Tennant, In Sicily; D.H. Lawrence & Althea Willoughby, The Triumph of the Machine; T.S.
Eliot & E. McKnight Kauffer, Marina; Roy Campbell & David Jones, The Gum Trees;
Walter de la Mare & Barnett Freedman, News; Henry Newbolt & Althea Willoughby, A
Child is Born, Walter de la Mare & Albert Rutherston, To Lucy; Siegfried Sassoon &
Stephen Tennant, To the Red Rose; T.S. Eliot & E. McKnight Kauffer, Triumphal March;